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I've submitted an update at www.zmodeler3.com, so it's available for download. Anyone with ZM3 license (or with trial license) can take a look on what have been done so far. Unfortunately, HAVOK *.hkx files are not modded to the moment. Also, It will take a lot of time to write guide materials, but ...

testing the exported model in game. utilizes new geometry file, new material files and new _reference.skeleton file.
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there is a utility AssetCc2 (hkSDK_Root\Tools\BatchProcess\AssetCc). It can convert any erialized .HKX file to xml .hkx this seems to fail on .hkx files I have. but it can convert tagged xml file into native xml version and native xml into binary file. at least I have something to start from by com...

I've skim through some of hkx files related to vehicle physics and these seems to contain quite a lot of info. For example, the general collision volumes (visually looks like vertices and faces/connectivity_links indices) for all vehicle objects end up on about 20Kb of data and the overal hkx file i...

Hi All! I've searched the forum, checked most of result topics and still have a doubt whether this format was ever explored and/or any documentation was made available. May be some of you have valuable links to any tools that can deal with these files and/or have some drafts of binary file format th...

I would not agree, I think it's moddable, we just don't put much effort into it.

these are green-alpha normal displacement maps with green been displacement on X/U and alpha on Y/V. You can move alpha channel to red and save this normal map as GR16 (green 16 bit, red 16 bit). then load it in any directX-compatible editor as bump map and the "Z" (blue) will be automatic...

hopefully we shall get something out. No dates estimated at the moment, but I work from time to time on this subject.

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my inquiry is generally about offline mods. wish some user install several mods, how would he do this? Currently, he has to pack them all into a single patch .fat/.dat, backup this file, start UPlay, let the game download "correct" patch, replace it with modded patch and finally start the ...

does the game detect changes in .dat file (may be checksum)? I mean, when you close and restart UPlay, does it redownload the latest patch or it behaves correctly and ready-to-go?

I use packing into patch.fat/.dat files for testing, but Uplay uses to replace the patch with the downloaded one after each restart of PC. Does this tool resolve this problem for modding? I guess it changes files straight in *_world.fat/.dat files, correct?

I've ported only DriverCloth shader yesterday, as it's a bit comprehensive task to adopt as much original data into available material information as possible. Since my shaders use different code and blending methods on multytexture layers, the result does not match perfectly, but overal look is ver...

I personally have to skip the research of character models as these usually contain "extra skinning' mode with 6 bones weights. my software does not support 6 bones weights and even worse, limited to 255 bone indices only :(. So, until I make considerations and upgrade to directx11 (by abandoni...